Tokyo School Workshop (Co-sponsored by GJS)
Inclusion and Exclusion - Exploring Modern Knowledge Production at Tokyo (Imperial) University

Date and time: July 18, 2020 (Sat.), 8:45AM-6:30PM
Venue: Online via Zoom
Language: Japanese and English
This is an online event via Zoom. Please register here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdOqrqzkjHNzm7RbfZf2WCZePuEYjdwBG

Purpose:
Modern disciplinary knowledge introduced from the West, in its reorganization and institutionalization, contributed to nation-state building and social formation in Japan. Needless to say, universities, in particular research-focused national universities, played a vital role in this process. This role and its legacy, however, have not been sufficiently explored and understood. With this aim in mind, this workshop builds on Michel Foucault's analytical insights on knowledge and power to explore the relationship between modern governmentality and the changes in the structures of inclusion and exclusion of modern disciplinary knowledge at Tokyo (Imperial) University by focusing on the four concepts and related discourses (religion, race, history, publicness) that straddled humanities and social science disciplines.

Regarding the program and the title and abstract of each presentation, please visit the GJS website:
http://gjs.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/events/post/20200718_Tokyo_school/

Organizer: JSPS Research Project "The Tokyo School"
Co-organizer: the Group Research Project "Rethinking Japanese Religious History from the Perspective of Discrimination"
Co-organizer: Global Japan Studies Network (GJS)
Co-organizer: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA)
Contact: gjs[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp